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July/August 2009

Privacy Requires Security, Not Abstinence

Protecting an inalienable right in the age of Facebook.

By Simson Garfinkel

Credit: Istvan Banyai

I'd be a fool to include my Social Security number in this article: doing so would leave me vulnerable to all manner of credit fraud, scams, and even criminal arrest. All of this would surely happen because a few bad people would read the article, write down my SSN, and pretend to be me.

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